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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.
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She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.
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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
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I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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It is my belief that books are living things.
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I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn’t stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse
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I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
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I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
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His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
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We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.
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If you keep it, Daneca says, he'll have his claws in you. Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
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She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.
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We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
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I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously
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Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
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You really dug your own grave,” he mutters. “And I’m going to bury you in it.” “Say that louder,” I tell him, under my breath. “I dare you.
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